Glossary


The present mostly list of recurrent chinese medical terms has the purpose to simplify to the curious reader the entry in the world medical Oriental; the run to come to understand the true meaning of every voice requires the explanation of professionals that they have a deep theoretical knowledge and practice of this subject: the way of the truth on this millennial and extraordinary diagnostic modality and unique and original therapeutics in its intuition, oblige to this appointment. Yet the knowledge of the contents of this short and succinct list it is not to underestimate since in it the reader can already gather the aspect suggestive of the discovery of the double inherent value in every paragraph, of moment physiological and of physiopathological expression of an event, and it has therefore the possibility to acquire since immediately an useful cultural baggage



> TAO (DAO) > MUCOSITY
> YIN-YANG > COLD WIND
> EMPTY OF YANG > WARM-HOT WIND
> EMPTY OF YIN > COLD(Han)
> QI > ESTERNAL HUMIDITY
> YUAN QI > DROUGHT(Zao)
> JING QI > HOT-FIRE(Re-Huo)
> WEI QI-OÈ QI > TOXIC HOT
> YONG QI > HUMIDITY WARM-HOT
> EMPTY Of QI(XU) > HUMIDITY COLD
> REBELLON Of QI(NI) > MUCOSITY HUMIDITY
> FULNESS Of QI(ZHI) > LIVER
> BLOOD (XUE) > HEART
> EMPTY Of BLOOD > SPLEEN
> STASIS Of BLOOD > LUNG
> EMPTY Of QI-BLOOD > KIDNEY
> SHEN > TO TONIFY
> FLUID ORGANIC > TO DISPERSE



TAO (DAO)

The symbol of the Taoist philosophy is the Tao. It is represented as a separated circle in two symmetrical half from a sinusoidal line which gives the idea of rotational continuous movement. The whole suggests the action expressed by two forms of energy that act in opposite but synergetic way. The originality of this thought is in the presentation of the reality and therefore the life of the man as expression of interactive strengths able to change in the really opposite one: the matter in energy, the energy in matter. The two strengths antagonists synergetic and complementary, they take the name of Yin Yang. Their dynamic character is reproduced in suggestive and synthetic manner by the ancient Chinese symbol T'ai-chi T'u called "Diagram of the last reality" or Tao (Dao). In cosmic sense, the Tao is the essence of the universe, his progress, his to exist, the last and inscrutable reality. In moral sense it is the correct and only Way. In physical sense it is the order of the nature seen how flow and nonstop change of the reality, in which the animal and vegetable world, the man, the nature, follows continuous cyclical schemes that they characterize the incessant transformation of the Dao.


YIN - YANG

The Yin Yang explains that the man lives in the kingdom of the duality, in which the reality is composed of couples, of opposite double aspects, but tied by an indissoluble correlation that makes the one complementary of the other. Every couple introduces a characteristic, a physiognomy, a structure, an aspect that cannot exist without the support of the contrary aspect. In the reality aspects alone Yin or Yang don't exist, but whole (couples) in which the two aspects act with a dynamics brim to reach a state of continuous equilibrium. If the Yang increases, the Yin is withdrawn, if the Yin increases the Yang it is withdrawn, but, always, transitorily until the opposite state it is reached.
To explanatory purpose we can divide the unity Yin Yang, separating the aspects Yin from those Yangs of the existing joinings in nature; in the field of the physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, astronomy, etc., and in what concerns to the human body: anatomy, physiology, physiopathology, clinic, therapy. But it is not necessary to commit the error to objectively consider the Yin and the Yang to itself stale. This way doing would lose meaning the principle on which the reality and the way of operating of the universe and all the aspects of the living world are founded. He cannot simply be said: the man is Yang, this concept doesn't have for the Chinese, any meaning, if it is not compared with another term of comparison: correct it is to say the man it is Yang in comparison to a woman Yin, since the men can be more or less Yang or straight Yin and the women to be more or less Yin or straight Yang. In a couple, Yang can be the woman, if it dominates in energy (Yang), courage (Yang), initiative (Yang), authority (Yang), a weak man (Yin), fearful (Yin), lazy (Yin), timid (Yin).
To have a meaningful reading, Yin-Yang always needs a point of reference of comparison of relationship. In this way the value Yin Yang is never absolute, but related to the binomial one or considered joining

SOME EXAMPLES Of COUPLES YIN-YANG


YIN YANG
weak hair, short-lived strong hair, resisting
scarce hair abundant hair
subumbilical regions supraumbilical regions
anterior area of the body external areas of the body
organs viscuses
liver gall bladder
heart small intestine
spleen-pancreas stomach
lung large intestine
kidney bladder
right side of the body left side of the body
dermis epidermis
deep muscles superficial muscles
veins arteries
motor nerves sensorial nerves
depth lymphatic tract superficial lymphatic tract
deep bones superficial bones
deep articulations superficial articulations
face pale, yellowish, cyanosed ruddy face
hypotonic epithelial tissue sthenic epithelial tissue
hydrous epithelial tissue dry epithelial tissue
female sex male sex
flabby obesity tonic obesity
blonde smooth hair black curly hair
hypotonic muscular tissue sthenic strong muscular tissue
slow reflexes, delayed rapid reflexes, ready
slow motions, embarrassed agile motions
conciseness (to speak few) loquacity
absent sad look careful happy look
tranquillity exuberance
calm hurry
sadness, depression joy, excitement
pessimism optimism
egoism indifference altruism
unwillingness, idleness wish, activity
sedentariness industriousness
indecision initiative
great activity the evening great activity the morning
to postpone immediately to perform
sat position or recumbency erect position
decificiet virility pronounced virility
pronounced femininity deficient femininity
arterial hypotension arterial hypertension


EMPTY OF YANG

The syndrome "Yang - Empty" achieves to states of void of Qi. She is manifested as External or Internal Cold, can have congenital origin, to derive from hypocaloric feedings to achieve to serious feverish states to prolonged illnesses to assumptions prolonged of antibiotics sedatives antiphlogistics hypnotics anxiolytics hypotensives anorexiants.

Symptoms: fear of the cold that improves with the heat, mucous oral and language pale, white shiny slippery fur, pallor of the face, hands and cold feet, absence of silk, cold skin, clear and abundant urines, feceses doughy, tense pulse, slow, less than 4 pulsations for respiratory period. "Disappeared of Yang" is occurred in the final states of critical illnesses that involve uncontrollable increases of the bodily temperature (malignant hyperthermia, meninigitis, etc.).


EMPTY OF YIN

The syndrome "Yin - Empty" derives from states of insufficiency of liquids and of blood caused by compensated not losses (perspirations, urinary eliminations, vomits, hemorrhages), from inadequate assumptions, from feedings unbalanced toward hypercaloric foods alcoholic drinks or because of medicinal that accent the diuresis the perspiration. As internal Hot is manifested or "Heat to the five fires." He can have constitutional origins or to derive from alimentary regimes in which hypercaloric foods prevail, to achieve to regimes of life stressful (working excesses, sexual, emotional), to consumption illnesses feverish, to medical therapies prolonged with reconstituent drugs, antidepressants, hypertensive, euphoriant, exciting, stimulating the metabolism.

Symptoms: insomnia, oliguresis, constipation, dryness of the mucous oral, loss of weight, heat to the palm of the hands, to the plants of the feet, to the precordial region, nighttime transpiration, scarlet tongue, evening fever, halitosis, gengivitis, uletic bleeding, turgid turned on face, ulcerations of the mucous oral, nervousness, excessive emotionalism, backache, dizziness, acouphonia.


QI

Qi expresses the " essence ", the native emanation that form and soul the cosmos. Qi is the vital strength that moves and it transforms the energy contained in the human beings and in the things. In his wider meaning, Qi is the vital breath that allows the seed to change in plant and in fruit, to the leaf to assume a color, to the organ to develop his functions, to the food to change in nourishment, etc. In Chinese Medicine, the union of Qi, Blood and Fluids (intra - extracellular and organic (sweat, urinary, synovial of the serous, mucous, etc), constitutes the whole the fundamental materials of the organism. An only whole exists "energy - matter", which is the matrix of the universe and his constituent with its movement and its transformation. The Qi typically acts with an action Yang when it participates in the formation of the constitutive elements of the organic matter allowing cellular life to be revealed. In this case, its nature is that of "immaterial essence" that gives origin to the organic functions: breathing Qi, circulation Qi, (Qi of the sky). Or it participates in the support and the maintenance of the organism as " material substance " Yin as the Qi of the nourishment (the earth's Qi). Among the two Qi interdependent relationships exist being the second the material base of the first one and the first one the demonstration of the activity of the second. Also being only one, the Qi knows numerous configurations that they qualify the location and the function of it.


YUAN QI

It is original energy and it represents the potential of life that every individual receives during the conception from the union of the sperm with the ovule. Along the arc of the existence original energy suffers a progressive decrement signalled by the physiological phenomenon of the biological aging. He is compared to an account in bank left by parents that it is not able in some way to be increased. Leung Kok - Yuen imagines it as an oil lamp in which the content liquid, in determined quantity it is Yin, the solid container is Yang, the wick is Yang. The conception creates the spark that turns on the flame of a system that will be stopped only with the death.


JING QI

It is purest energy, the quintessence of the five organs, the essential principle: as acquired ancestral energy is also translated. The energy Jing Qi is composed of two fractions: an innate, that derives from the antecedents (parents, grandfathers, ancestors) and he is received to the act of the conception; the other, acquired, acquired Jing Qi, that derives from the foods and maids from support to the before. Jing Qi presides to the development of the organism and, therefore, to the assimilation of the energy of the foods necessary for such assignment.

WEI QI - OÈ QI

It is the energy produced by the pure energy of the foods and it assumes the role of energy of defense, protectress of the organism. To it the following roles must be attributed: protection against the climatic external aggressions, opening and closing of the coil (sweat) glands, regulation of the temperature of the body, heating of the organs, to feed the skin and the hair.


YONG QI - RONG QI - YING QI

It is energy alimentary derived by the feeding. It comes elaborated in the stomach, in the middle, and purified focus in the bellows, in the focus superior, before reaching to the organs and viscuses. It crosses the meridians principal. it is of nature Yin because deep. It provides the metabolic necessities of the organism. The energy Yong Qi begins his circulation to the three of the morning from the meridian of the lung, and in the 24 hours, it crosses all the meridians according to an established order:


EMPTY - DEFICIT OF QI (XU)

It assumes the meaning of functional insufficiency. The causes are the states of physical exhaustion, psychic from stress, illnesses, job, malnutrition, physical abuse (sport, sex, etc.). Symptoms: exhaustion, dizziness, faints, insufficient breath, short, superficial (dispnea) that the makes difficult to speak, spontaneous perspiration and aggravation of the symptoms to the least effort, timidity, fear, emotion, cried, depression, sadness, anguish, apprehension, indecision.


REBELLION OR REVOLT OF QI (NI)

Symptoms: cough, bronchial asthma (Lung), dizziness, deliquium, cerebral hemorrhage, hematemesis (Liver), nausea, regurgitations of food, hiccup, vomit (Stomach).


STASIS - FULNESS OF QI (ZHI)

It expresses impediment or block of the circulation of the energy. The causes are the traumas of physical nature (accidental), climatic (wind, cold, damp, dryness) and of psychic nature (exaggerated emotional reactions or not controllable). Symptoms: pains, tissular tumefaction, visceral bloat, edemas, anger, psychic excitement, laughed uncontrolled, obsessions, fixed ideas, dissatisfaction, authoritarianism, extravagance.


BLOOD (XUE)

The blood relatively assumes polarity Yin to the defensive energy (Wei Qi) more superficial and therefore Yang. The blood and the defensive energy (Wei Qi) they establish a relationship of reciprocity and equilibrium that involves every point of the body. The increase of the Yang extravascular will result in a vasoconstriction Yang that will reduce the volume of the blood Yin; the increase of the hematic volume Yin, will be balanced by the vasodilatation Yin, induced by a balanced reduction of the Yang. The blood is correlated to the energy Qi, this energy it has the ability to produce it, to do him/it circular, to preserve it in the blood vases: an insufficient Qi involves a void of blood, vascular brittleness, hemorrhages; a Qi in excess involves hematic stasis, formation of thrombuses. In Chinese Medicine blood derives from the foods, the foods contain an energy or essence (Jing Qi), this essence after its passage in the "middle heater " (stomach, spleen, liver, bilious bladder) get on the "superior heater " (heart and lung), the functional whole heart - lung, eliminates impurities and receives energy Qi for the transformation of the foods in blood. the energy Jing Qi elaborates the liquids of the body, it transforms them in blood and it assembles them in the blood vases. The function of the blood is that of circular in the whole body, humidifying, heating, feeding it and serving him as essential base for the organic and mental functional activity. Blood incessantly circulates to provide for the necessities of all structures microscopic jail cell and macroscopic organic, visceral and structural. The organs preceded to the control of the physiopathology state of the Blood are the liver, the spleen, the heart, bellows, backs

EMPTY OF BLOOD (XUE)

It is correlated to the insufficiency of one or more organs preceded to the control of his production and his functional state: liver, the spleen, the heart, lungs, kidneys. If blood is enough also the mental activity it profits of it. If blood is insufficient amnesias they are had, the fingernails are pale and fragile, the conjunctivas are dry, frequent wink is had, prickles are warned to the hands or to the feet, tic, tremors and rigidity, spasms muscular, have been seen weakened, pale lips, livid, pallor of the face, pale language, dryness of the skin, facility to the formation of the wrinkles, oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea (rare or absent menstruations), nighttime transpiration, anxious nervousness, palpitations, insomnia, fears.


STASIS OF BLOOD (XUE)

The energy Qi of the heart and the lung is important for the distribution of the blood in the whole body. Their insufficiency creates hematic stasis and vascular occlusions. Symptoms: pains to the chest, cardiac palpitations, weak breath, spontaneous transpiration, transpiration during the sleep, pallor, anxious nervousness, insomnia, tongue red dark color with points or purple spots.


EMPTY OF QI AND BLOOD (XUE)

It assumes the meaning of organic functional insufficiency. The causes are the states of physical exhaustion, psychic from stress, illnesses, job, malnutrition, physical abuse (sport, sex, etc.). Symptoms: exhaustion, dizziness, faints, insufficient breath, short, superficial (dyspnea) that the makes difficult to speak, spontaneous perspiration and aggravation of the symptoms to the least effort, timidity, fear, emotion, cried, depression, sadness, anguish, apprehension, indecision, amnesias, pale and fragile fingernails, conjunctivas are dry, frequent wink, prickles to the hands or to the feet, tic, tremors and rigidity, spasms muscular, seen weakened, pale lips, livid, pallor of the face, pale language, dryness of the skin, facility to the formation of the wrinkles, oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea (rare or absent menstruations), nighttime transpiration, anxious nervousness, palpitations, insomnia, fears


SHEN

It symbolizes the physical and psychic aspect of the subject. To have the Shen means to be in state of health or rather to have a healthy aspect, a complexion diamond, an alive look, acute, careful, normal breath, way of expressing him clear, intelligent and comprehensible, ability to learn and to memorize


FLUID, LIQUID ORGANIC

Ying is the delicate part, light, light of the liquids that it circulates on the surface of the body together with the energy Wei Qi. Ye is the heavy part, viscous that circulates inside the body together with the energy Ying Qi. Among the liquids (Yin), and the energy Qi, (Yang), relationships of interdependence exist for which the insufficiency of Qi reduces the presence of liquids, or they stagnate under form of edemas or district stasis; on the other hand the stasis and the loss of liquids (diarrhea, vomit, profuse perspiration, sialorrhea), it stops and it provokes an impoverishment of the energy Qi.


MUCOSITY (Tan, Yin)

The mucosity achieve to dysfunctions of the organs preceded to the metabolism of the liquids, the Lung, the Spleen, the Kidney. They are distinguished in dense (Tan) and in fluid (Yin) with generic symptoms: dizziness, nausea, vomit, cardiac palpitations, respiratory insufficiency, hypomnesia, mental confusion, insanity and specific symptoms related to the involvement of one or more organs.

COLD WIND (Fong-Feng)

It is the Qi of the beginning in the spring as pathogenic agent it not only understands the motion of the air but all of this that it is transported by it and it penetrates in the organism with the inhalation or the ingestion: virus, bacteria, atmospheric dust, allergen, toxic agents, etc. the aggressions are also included by physical and chemical agents. The characteristics of the Wind as pathogenic agent are to be well locatable not, to interest the fabric musculo-tendinous, to mainly involve the regions supraumbelical (head, nape, back). Her polarity is " Yin " and therefore the Yang depresses, its nature is to open, to make to gush out, to move upward. When it attacks the initial symptoms are nuchal rigidity, the perspiration, the headache, the fear of the wind; the fever arrives if the subject doesn't sweat abundantly.
  • Qi Wind belongs to the liver.
  • The Wind is the cause of numerous illnesses.
  • The Wind is moved and quickly changes.
  • Fong Bi is the Fong of the articulations: intermittent articular pains that interest more articulations.
  • Bi of Fong: locatable intermittent pains not, laxity of the ligaments, headache, sadness, nausea.
  • cutaneous Bi: fear of the wind and the cold that precedes the appearance of the exanthem.
  • Bi muscular-tendinous: wind - cold in the muscles and in the tendons which they show turgidity and painful contractures


    WARM-HOT WIND (Fong-Feng)

    It is the Qi of the warm season as pathogenic agent it not only includes the motion of the air but all of this that is transported by it and penetrates in the organism with the inhalation or the ingestion: virus, bacteria, atmospheric dust, allergen, toxic agents, etc. the aggressions are also included by physical and chemical agents. The characteristics of the Wind as pathogenic agent are to be well locatable not, to interest the fabric musculus-tendinous, to mainly involve the regions supraumbilical (head, nape, back). You his/her polarity is " Yang " and therefore the Yin depresses, its nature is to open, to make to gush out, to move upward. When it attacks, the initial symptoms are nuchal rigidity, perspiration, headache, fear of the wind; the fever arrives if the subject doesn't sweat abundantly.
  • Qi wind belongs to the liver.
  • The wind is the cause of numerous illnesses.
  • The wind is moved and quickly changes.
  • The wind attacks the tall zones of the body.
  • Fong Jung is the Fong of the skin: the urticaria, the itch that is manifested without a fixed point.
  • Fong Bi is the Fong of the articulations: intermittent articular pains that interest more articulations.
  • Bi of Fong: locatable intermittent pains not, laxity of the ligaments, headache, sadness, nausea.
  • cutaneous Bi: fear of the wind and the heat that precedes the appearance of the exanthem.
  • Bi musculus-tendineous: wind - heat in the muscles and in the tendons which they introduce turgidity and painful contractures

    COLD (Han)

    It is the Qi in the winter. As pathogenic agent expresses the physical action of the Cold on the organism. His polarity is " Yin " and therefore the Yang depresses, his nature it is to get cold and therefore to slow down, to contract, to stop the circulation of Qi. The symptoms change according to the location: if the Cold penetrates in the muscles the subject it warns the fear for the Cold; if the Cold is located in the meridian, the arrest of the circulation of Qi provokes an acute pain. Han Bi is the Cold to the bones and it corresponds to the articular rheumatism with muscular contractures, difficult movements of the limbs, violent pains, calmed by the heat in a first time, and increased by the Cold.

  • The Cold contracts the Qi.
  • All the Cold contractures belong to the Kidney.
  • Bi of the Cold: pains and contractures in the whole body, for crisis, above all the evening, fear of the Cold and slow wrist.
  • Bony Bi: acute pains of the bones, fear of the Cold.


    EXTERNAL HUMIDITY (Shi)

    Its polarity is Yin and therefore it acts on the Yang Qi stopping it and depressing it. Its nature is heavy, impure, stagnant, adhesive, when it penetrates in the organism it has the tendency to sojourn for a long time. The illnesses from Xie Humidity hardly recover and they are inclined to the chronicity. It acts particularly on the Jing Luo, or rather on the principal meridians and their ramifications, on the zones that connect the organs with the organism and they make to communicate the Tall one with the Lower part, the Surface, with the Internal of the body. On the muscles damp creates easy tiredness, numbness, strength's loss, paresthesia. On the articulations damp provokes heaviness in the movements and deaf pain, Shi Bi is damp to the skin, to the muscles, to the bones, to the articulations and it corresponds to the muscular rheumatism or to articulate: fixed pains to the subcutaneous one, to the muscles or to the articulations, paresthesia, movements difficult, tired stricken arts, heavy.

  • damp acts preventing the circulation of the water and provokes edemas.
  • All the edemas depend on the Spleen."
  • On the skin damp provokes eczemas.
  • Bi of the damp: fixed pain, edemas and above all paresthesia.
  • Bi of the subcutaneous one: sweats, with paresthesia and prickles.


    DROUGHT(Zao)

    Its polarity is " Yang " and therefore curtains to dehydrate to decrease the liquids of the Yin, but its action is also astringent. The susceptible organ to be struck it is the Lung, the tissue, the skin and the hair. The symptoms involve the function of distribution, purification, come down of Qi: dry cough, scarce expectoration and viscous difficult to expectorate, bronchospasm, thoracic pain. They change if the dryness is associated to the cold or to the warm.

  • Dry heat: fever, headache, modest transpiration, thirst, anguish, nose and throat you dry, dry cough with scarce expectoration.
  • Dry cold: fever, headache, absence of sweat, dry cough with scarce expectoration, dry mouth, closed nose.


    WARM-HOT FIRE (Re - Huo)

    Their polarity is " Yang " and therefore they depress the Yin, diminishing strength of it, consuming the liquids of the organism and provoking the dispersion of it to the external. Their nature it is to inflame and to rise, acting on the most elevated regions of the body. The initial symptoms are: fever without shiver, headache, swollen and painful throat, arid mouth, thirst.

  • The spasms, the faints, the deliriums, the inflammations of the skin with pus belong to the Fire.
  • The Fire of the Heart inflames the point of the language and the mouth.
  • The Fire of the Stomach inflames the gums.
  • The Fire of the Liver inflames the eyes.


    TOXIC WARM-HOT

    It results formed by the combination of the Heat in excess with you determine toxins. It can paragon him to the serious infections of the western medicine. The symptoms are fever, anginas, inflammations, ulcers, mental disorders.


    HUMIDITY WARM-HOT

    It is one "Internal Damp, deep united to the Heat"

    Symptoms: feeling of bodily heaviness, thoracic oppression, pains abdominal, malodorous feceses. The tongue is often reddish or more colored of the normal, the fur is of burnt yellow color.


    HUMIDITY COLD

    It is one "Inside Damp, deep united to the Cold"

    Symptoms: feeling of bodily heaviness, edemas or water retention, swellings tendency abdominal after the meals, tiredness, exhaustion, tendency to gain weight. The language is great and show to the sides the imprints of the teeth, the fur is white, damp and thick.


    MUCOSITY HUMIDITY

    Dense damp that is accumulated in the organism and, when it is associated to stasis of " Blood ", can give masses origin, tumors, ecc.


    LIVER

    The function of the Liver is dispatched toward three directions:


    1 harvest and distribution of the blood
    2 regulation of the digestive and assimilative function
    3 activation of the"three heaters" and liberation of the "way" of the water

    Peripheral function:
  • on the musculus-tendineous apparatus. External connection:
  • on the fingernails, the eyes, the sigh


    HEART

    The function of the Heart (Shou Shao Yin) it is dispatched within:


    1 the circulation of the blood inside the vases.
    2 the mental activity. (Shen)

    Peripheral function:

  • on the arterial system and on the blood pressur External connection:
  • on the tongue, sense of the taste, color of the face


    SPLEEN

    The function of the Spleen (Zu Tai Yin) it is dispatched toward three directions:


    1 transport-distribution
    2 ascent
    3 the blood's containment

    The Spleen presides together with the Stomach to the digestive function of the foods; particularly the Qi of the Spleen handles the assimilation of the pure " essence " of the foods and distribution to all the other organs. The Qi of the Spleen possesses necessary strength to make to climb this essence up to the Lung. it is the same Qi that allows blood to flow along the blood vases and to prevent escapes it.

    Peripheral function:

  • connective tissue, the " meat ". External connection:
  • the mouth, the lips, the touch.


    LUNG

    The function of the Lung (Shou Tai Yin) it is dispatched toward three directions:


    1 the Qi of the organism sustains, it governs the respiraton
    2 it controls the diffusion of the Qi, of the blood, and of the liquids
    3 it directs the "descent" of the air

    The Lung expires the spoiled Qi and inhales the pure Qi. He directs energy Zong Qi, formed by Qi of the air and Jing Qi of the foods, toward the Heart and through it distributes it in the whole organism. The Lung directs the Qi of the air toward the Kidney, this nonstop medium among superior and inferior heater, allows the free circulation of the liquids, essential role of the Lung is also that to control the diffusion of the air, of the blood and of the liquids and to heat the skin with the energy Wei Qi; to mean the reported defensive role to this organ, toward the external pathogenic agents.

    Peripheral function:

  • the cutaneous apparatus, the phonation External connection:
  • nose, respiratory tract, smell


    KIDNEY

    The function of the " Kidneys " is dispatched toward four directions:


    1 containment of the innate Jing and acquired
    2 controllo dell'acqua
    3 controllo degli orifici inferiori
    4 produzione del midollo osseo

    The Jing of the Kidneys is composed by the inherited Jing and by the Jing acquired derived from the pure energy of the foods produced by Spleen-stomach. The Jing of the Kidneys it is shown in the two aspects Yin and primordial Yang: the first one, the True " Yin ", is the basis of the liquids of the body that he nourishes and it humidifies, the second, the "True Yang", it is the basis of the Yang Qi of the body and it has the assignment to preside to everybody his metabolic processes and to his heating. The action on the water is dispatched from the Qi of the kidney. If the Yang Qi is prevalent, it opens a lot: polyuria, insipid diabetes, pancreatic diabetes; if the Yin prevails, it closes a lot: oliguresis, retention of urine, edemas.

    The Kidneys produce the bony marrow (medulla ossium), the marrow of the vertebral column (spinal marrow) and the brain, considered as "the concentration of the marrow".

    Peripheral function:

  • apparato scheletrico External connection:
  • ear, teeth, heard


    TO TONIFY

    To give tone, energy to the system for the functional activation. it is possible with heated needles with a lighter or with the " moxa " with leaves of turned on artemisia above the Chinese point. It can be tonify opportunely resorting to the Chinese medicines select second the etiopathogenic diagnosis of the dysfunction.It can be tonify also with electric fields created by minimals electric current measured in micro Ampèrè.The software "Medodue" is connected to an apparatus, "Homeostasis", able to measure the variations of the conductance of the Chinese point; this datum is read by a micro chip and decoded from integrated " frames " in degree to conduct to the diagnosis in real time.The current ones disbursed by the apparatus are able to take care of the deficit or the excess of energy through automatic choice of the fit electric parameters.


    TO DISPERSE

    It means to eliminate the excesses, to reactivate the stases to balance the compromised functions. It is possible with the massage of the Chinese points, with the needles set to abode for long time, with the Chinese medicines; but also with the polarize electric current previous gotten diagnosis, as for the tonification, with " Medodue " and the apparatus "Homeostasis" 1